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5985. NEWSPAPERS, Weaned from.—

I have never seen a Philadelphia paper since
I left it, till those you enclosed me; and I
feel myself so thoroughly weaned from the
interest I took in the proceedings there,
while there, that I have never had a wish to
see one, and believe that I never shall take
another newspaper of any sort. I find my
mind totally absorbed in my rural occupations.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. iv, 103. Ford ed., vi, 503.
(M. April. 1794)